Service will be, inaugurated, envoy next month by the Chiba National Aviation Corporation, an air service monopoly having been granted to it by the Chiactungpu after ita amalgamation with the Chiaotungpu Shanghai-Chengtu Air Service, In order to make an inspection of the air route between Hankow and Chungking, a trial flight was made by One of the Corporation's planes on September 12 The plane will Teave Shanghai at 8 am. and, after staying the night at Hankow, hopped off for Ichang on September 13, Then it will fly to Wanhsien and Chungking. Although actually only about 12 hous are needed to fy between Shanghai and Chungking, a distance of a little more than 1,200 miles, the plane which left here for Szechuan on September 12 will stop in Hankow, Ichang and Wanhsien and will complete the flight in fous days so as to enable the officials of the Corporation to make a careful inspection of the route, Gen, K, I. Nich, an America! returned student, and an American pilot will pilot the machine and the vice-chairman of the board of directors of the Corporation will be the only passenger, After its amalgamation with the Shanghai-Chengtu Air Service, the China National Aviation Corporation became possessed of seven aerer planes, four belonging to it originally, and the other three to the Chiro-tungpu. The Shanghai-Chengtu Air Sexvrice originally had nine planes, all of which were of the Stinson type, but the National Government later purchased two and Inter bore rowed four mor The Corporation has endered a new plane from America, equipped with pontoons and costing about G§20,000, This is due to arrive in Shanghat fon September 19 and will be used especially in connection with the Mankow-Chungking Service beau: of its adaptability to upper Yangtze conditions.
Arrangements for the extension of the Shanghai-Hankow Air Service to Chungking have been already completed, such as the transmission of weather reports, the installation of wireless stations, the laying out of fying fields, ete.
The Service's planes will stop in Jehang and Wanhsien and, for the time being, only one flight will be made weekly between Hankow and Chungking. It is expected, however, that more flights may be made in future and that the service may be extended to Chengtu before long.
The inauguration of the Hankow-Chungking Air Service will greatly facilitate passengers between Shany" hai and Chungking as at present it takes two weeks to travel from Shanghai to Chungking by steamer, whereas only 15 hours, seven hours from Shanghai to Hankow and eight hours from Hankow to Chungkin, will be required by ait, By order of the Chiaotungpu, vessels of the China Merchants S, N.
Ca. on the North China service must call at Wethaiwei, in fature says the Chinese press. a
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